Chair.



PATBNTED Nov. 2a, 11905.V

C. AGKER.

CHAIR.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 20.1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

' UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE, CHARLES ACKER, OF RUSHVILLE, ILLINOIS.

l CHAIR.

No. 806,043. n

Specification ofiLetters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

e Application flied my 20,1904. seriale. 217.388.

T0 all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES AoKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Itushville, in the county of Schuyler and Sta-te of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements v in Chairs, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to improvements' in chairs.

Said invention has for its object to provide for the ready adjustment of the parts of the chair according to the position the occupant may desire to assume for comfort, either in a recumbent one or otherwise. Also it provides for effecting this without the use of springs and in a simple and inexpensive manner.

Said invention consists of certain features of structural detail, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and particularly defined by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure l is a perspective view thereof. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan view, partly in horizontal section, showing more particularly the leg-securing frame.

.Fig. 4 is a sectional view produced trans-H versely through one of the chair-arms and the leg-securlng frame. Fig. 5 shows disassembled views of the component parts of a chairarm. I Fig. 6 is a` perspective view showing more especially the connection between the front leg and the leg-securing frame, parts being broken away. Fig. 7 is a view in perspective, showing more particularly the back seat and'arm strap connections, the parts being separated.

In the carrying out of my invention I`construct the chair principally of a stationary frame l, to which arev secured about equidistantly of their lengths two front and two rear legs 2 2, respectively, a preferably relatively high back 3, and a seatllv arranged above and out of contact with said frame. Said frame,

Vin general outline of the usual construction,

has suitably secured within its corners reinforcing or strengthening blocks or braces 4. To the upper ends of the legs 2 2a are applied 5 arms 5, whose upper members or parts aare .bers or pieces 5b, with their ends abutting pendent end portions 5a of said uppermembers, said pendent portions fitting upon the outside of said legs, or, rather, their upward extensions, and said members or pieces 5b being received in slots 2b, produced in the upper ends of saidextensions. Said lower members 5b are provided in their lower edges with sockets to receive'the upper ends of rungs 6, the lower ends of the latter being inserted into corresponding sockets made in the lateral bars of the lseat-frame. Said arms have pivotal metal strap connections 7 with the back 3 and like connections 8 with the seat 4:, thus connecting the same togetherand suspending the seat from said arms out of contact with the leg-frame 1. Said back 3 has like pivotal metal strap connections 9 at their lower corner edges with the rear corner 'edges of the seat-frame which provide, in

connection with the aforesaid pivotal connec- A chaircomprising a leg-connecting frame,1V

provided with strengthening blocks or braces l within its corners; the leg members with their upward extensions; arms, each compris ing two members, the Lipper member having a longitudinalA groove or slot opening through its lower or under side, and pendent end portions; and the lower edgewise member being let into the said slot or groove of the aforesaid upper member, with its ends abutting the said pendent end portions; a pivoted back member; offset straps, with their forward portions fixed laterally to said edgewise-disposed arm member, to sinkit out of the general plane of the body of the occupant, and having its rear offset or outward defiected. portion connected to said back member; and

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a suspended seat member, having its suspendto this specification in the presence of two sublng-straps offset toward and dependable from seribing Witnesses. said edgeWise-arranged arm members, said Y `1 f seat and back members being connected to- (JHARLES AQIXER' 5 gether by straps pivoted together and having Witnesses: Xed relation to said seat and back. B. O. W'ILLARD,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name J. R. PRICHARD.

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